Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States

by Loch K. Johnson

Book Overview

All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively transparent governments. Democracies pride themselves on privacy and liberty, but intelligence organizations have secret budgets, gather information surreptitiously around the world, and plan covert action against foreign regimes. Sometimes, they have even targeted the very citizens they were established to protect, as with the COINTELPRO...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019068271X
• ISBN13: 9780190682712
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"